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Ending Chronic Homelessness - Federal Strategy & the Role of Permanent Supportive Housing (Hardcover)
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Ending Chronic Homelessness - Federal Strategy & the Role of Permanent Supportive Housing (Hardcover)
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Chronically homeless individuals are those who spend long periods
of time living on the street or other places not meant for human
habitation, and who have one or more disabilities, frequently
including mental illnesses and substance use disorders. In the 2014
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) point-in-time
count of people experiencing homelessness, over 84,000 individuals
met the definition of chronically homeless, down from more than
120,000 in 2008. In part the decline is due to the federal
governments plan, announced in 2002, to end chronic homelessness
within 10 years. The target date has since been extended to 2017.
Among the federal programs focused on ending chronic homelessness
are the HUD Homelessness Assistance Grants, the HUD and Veterans
Affairs Supported Housing Program (HUD-VASH), and several HUD
demonstration programs. One of the reasons that federal programs
have devoted resources to ending chronic homelessness is studies
finding that individuals who experience it, particularly those with
serious mental illness, use many expensive services often paid
through public sources, including emergency room visits, inpatient
hospitalisations, and law enforcement and jail time. Even emergency
shelter resources can be costly. In addition to potential ethical
reasons for ending chronic homelessness, doing so could reduce
costs in providing assistance to this population. This book
summarises the research surrounding permanent supportive housing
(PSH) for chronically homeless individuals. In doing so, it
attempts to examine the nuance in the research to determine where
PSH could be considered successful and where gaps may remain. The
book discusses what it means to be chronically homeless, the way in
which assistance for chronically homeless individuals has evolved,
and how federal programs target assistance to individuals
experiencing chronic homelessness. In addition, it summarises the
research regarding chronically homeless individuals who move into
PSH.
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